BIOLOGIST

James Sowerby

1757 - 1822

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James Sowerby (21 March 1757 – 25 October 1822) was an English naturalist, illustrator and mineralogist. Contributions to published works, such as A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland or English Botany, include his detailed and appealing plates. The use of vivid colour and accessible texts was intended to reach a widening audience in works of natural history. The standard author abbreviation Sowerby is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Sowerby is the 713th most popular biologist (up from 760th in 2019), the 3,280th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,675th in 2019) and the 104th most popular British Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, James Sowerby ranks 713 out of 1,097. Before him are Johannes Baptista von Albertini, Anthony R. Hunter, Jean de Thévenot, Franz Xaver Fieber, Alexander Wetmore, and Johannes Burman. After him are Thomas Nuttall, Alessandra Giliani, Alice Hamilton, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc, Paul Bert, and Gaetano Savi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1757, James Sowerby ranks 38. Before him are Étienne Pierre Ventenat, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, Alessandro Rolla, Pál Kitaibel, Wojciech Bogusławski, and Thomas Telford. After him are Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, John Adair, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, James Wilkinson, Józef Kozłowski, and Charles Pinckney. Among people deceased in 1822, James Sowerby ranks 34. Before him are Edward Daniel Clarke, Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Frei Galvão, Uesugi Harunori, and Hồ Xuân Hương. After him are Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti, Pierre-François Bouchard, Rudolph Schadow, William Pinkney, and Jared Ingersoll.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Sowerby ranks 3,281 out of 8,785. Before him are Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), John D. Barrow (1952), Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Vivian Fuchs (1908), and Flora Sandes (1876). After him are Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Bradley (1988), Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Thomas Nuttall (1786), Ronald Fairbairn (1889), and William Huskisson (1770).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, James Sowerby ranks 104. Before him are James Francis Stephens (1792), Paul Nurse (1949), John Sims (1749), William Withering (1741), N. E. Brown (1849), and Anthony R. Hunter (1943). After him are Thomas Nuttall (1786), John Anderson (1833), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Thomas Bell (1792), William Roxburgh (1751), and Miles Joseph Berkeley (1803).

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